All living beings in the Lands Between were no better than pigs and dogs.
Although this sea of stars was merely an illusion condensed from the body of the Elden Beast, the killing intent had been conveyed with perfect clarity, thoroughly confirming Gwen's suspicions—
The moment he saw that highly distinctive image of a thousand hands and a hundred eyes... six arms and two legs, Gwen had already formed a rough guess—
In the entire universe, the ones most likely to promote that figure so fervently were fanatical Abundant People.
For instance, the Wing Makers, who had once been defeated by the ancient empire's ruler and informed him of the Medicine King's existence, causing the Xianzhou fleet to set sail.
And those who reacted so strongly to the term "Abundant Evil" could only be Abundant People who truly were Abundant Evil.
By now, combining the information he had obtained from the Dragonlord Platonsanks, Gwen—who had activated the third-tier Gene Lock to simulate the clever people he knew—had roughly deduced the full picture—
The Golden Tree had descended upon this world, gradually replacing the original Furnace Aspects.
After completely establishing its rule over this world, the Golden Tree, most likely already under the Abundant People's control, began reducing the blessings it granted... cutting expenditures and using systems such as Returning Tree to squeeze this world dry to the bone—
The Golden Tree seized this world's power through its roots, and Returning Tree did not even spare the dead, turning both the bodies and souls of the deceased into gains for the mastermind controlling it all.
As for whether the original Furnace Aspects had been inherent to this world or deliberately created by someone, and whether the Golden Tree had been bestowed by the Compassionate Medicine King or was a creation the